The State as an Actor in Religion Policy: Policy Cycle and Governance Perspectives on Institutionalized ReligionMaria Grazia Martino Maria Grazia Martino and her contributing authors highlight the different solutions found by European countries with different ecclesiastical law systems, different distributions of Christian denominations and different percentages of Muslim immigrants: Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Italy and Greece. Churches and religious communities are actors from civil society. The state sets the framework for their activities, first and foremost by formal legal acts in ecclesiastical law. Besides this field of law, religion policy has increasingly developed into a policy field of its own. Which incentives and steering tools used by the state cause which kind of behavior, which role in society and which self-understanding among churches and religious communities? This edited volume answers these questions. |
Contents
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2 Nazi Germany and ReligionSome Thoughts on the Legal Framework Set by Religion Policy in a Polycratic Government System | 55 |
3 Does Islam belong to Germany? On the Political Situation of Islam in Germany | 70 |
No Religious Peace without Public Arrangements or Why the Catholic Church in Switzerland has to adopt Provisions from Swiss Democracy as Exe... | 85 |
5 Denominational Influence on Religion Policy after the State Church? Evidence from Greece Italy and Sweden | 97 |
The Aims and Realities of Religious Education in Sweden | 119 |
7 European Turks in between Local and Transnational Islamic Networks The Hizmet Movement as a Translocal Actor in the Religiosity of Turks in F... | 133 |
8 Conclusion | 154 |
About the Authors | 178 |
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